R. L. Rogers

Robert T. Rogers was being held in the Madison Parish jail at Tallulah, Louisiana, awaiting trial, when a mob of about twenty-five people arrived on a special train from Monroe shortly after midnight on May 28, 1906. According to a telegram from the district attorney and sheriff to Governor Blanchard, the mob broke open the jail and hanged him before the sheriff could act to protect him. Some accounts say the mob took him through a hole in the rear wall and hanged him from a telegraph pole near the jail, and the newspapers differ on whether jail staff resisted or handed him over. A special grand jury was reported to be investigating the lynching, and Dr. F. A. Brown was said to have led the mob.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Robert T. Rogers from the Madison Parish jail at Tallulah, Louisiana, and hanged him, according to the district attorney and sheriff's telegram to the governor; the accounts do not say whether jail officers resisted or handed him over.

Reported by: District Attorney Jeff B. Snyder and Sheriff A. J. Zevier of Madison Parish (the agency that held him); New Orleans Picayune (reporters).

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